Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.
Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.
The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.
Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.
the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.